Center

From ChannelingWiki

Introduction

Centers are a concept that is intuitively known to everyone. We know almost immediately when interacting with someone: Is this person a "head" person? Or are they a "heart" person or a "body-centric" person. This is the intuitive knowledge of centers everyone has.

Expanding this, centers essentially little energetic “computers” in which the experiences we live are filtered, processed, and delivered to our consciousness. There are 7 centers in all, although there are mainly three most people consciously interact with on a regular basis. These three are essentially summed up as "heart, mind, and body". In the Michael system, these correspond to the emotional, intellectual, and moving centers. The Gurdjieff system - and many other systems, such as NLP - also have analogous concepts.

People are primarily centered in one of the centers.  If someone is based in the Emotional Center, it means that their seat of consciousness (and thus immediate reactions) is based there.

There are 7 Centers in the Body, loosely corresponding to the 7 planes of existance.

1. The Instinctive Center.  This is the center that supports all the other centers by keeping the body alive and keeping records of experiences.  Instinct is a primary focus.
   
2. The Moving Center.  This is where, as a personality, you can act from to move the body, make plans, and create change in the world.  It also contains some "forceful" energy that can be thought of as emotions, like anger and some desires.  Those centered here will react in the body and tend to be "doers".
   
3. The Emotional Center.  This center houses the majority of what are known as emotions, but is also a seat of energetic sensitivity and perceptions.  It is with this center you feel what is going on in a room or a relationship. 
   
4. The Intellectual Center.  This houses logic, most uses of words, abstract thought and philosophy, and comparisons.  Those seated here do not have to be "word people"; many intellectually centered people may not be fully comfortable with words, prefering abstract thought.
   
5. The Higher Intellectual Center.  This is the center that deals with the experience of Truth, such as what a Zen meditation may be aiming towards.  The use of this center enables you to connect with the thoughts of your essence and universal Truths.  It is non-divisive, meaning that it can enable you to see past separateness.  Telepathy can occur here.
   
6. The Higher Emotional Center.  This is the center that deals with the experience of Love.  Jesus taught from here.  Your sense of Intuition and guidance can come from here as well.  It is a means for your essence to convey to you a wider perspective of your experience.  The poles are:  +AGAPE (Love) –INTUITION  
   Agape has no sense of separation between the experienced and the experiencer. All positive poles will have this quality.  With Intuition, there is a separation, a division.  Thus Agape allows the perception of patters and a sense of harmony amongst all patterns in existance, Intuition has some perception of what occurs but not the harmony.
   
7. The Higher Moving Center.  This center is based in the experience and perception of Energy and Beauty.  It is in essence about movement - the moving in unison with something larger than what you perceive of as Self.  Thus sex can be based in this center, at least in a higher sense.  (most sex is Moving Centered)   The positive pole is +Beauty, the negative pole is -Desire.  In this case, desire is a resonance and movement with something, but has a significant awareness on division.  You are not what you desire.  In +Beauty, you are what you desire and you see the perfection of it.